National Thowheeth Jama'ath

National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) is a Sri Lankan Islamist terrorist group which carried out the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings on 21 April 2019, killing over 290 people and injuring over 500. It split from Sri Lanka Thowheeth Jamath in 2016, and it advocated for the extreme fundamentalist indoctrination of children and for clashes with Buddhist monks. In 2018, the NTJ was linked to the vandalism of Buddhist statues, and, in 2019, it carried out several suicide bombings across Sri Lanka, targeting Christian churches and popular hotels.